Bloomerang

AUGUST 14, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to tactfully ask for donor feedback without making promises. . First, be careful about the way you ask for donor feedback. What feedback are you hearing in the community around this problem?”. Third, close the loop. What would the dream be?”.

Donor 108

Donor Charity Advice Ideas 108

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Feedback & Action Loop: Deploy an annual corporate partner survey to understand their needs and requests from you, and what they find most valuable about partnering with your organization. Opportunities & Education: The Top 10% of your partners donate 3x more than the rest.

Help 269

Help Retention Tips Template 269

Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Adopt a culture that values feedback. Maintaining a feedback loop to ensure that you as a leader know what is happening at pavement level will do three things: Creates confidence in your staff that they are a part of the change process. Remember: Obtaining feedback from your staff is not the same as using their feedback.

Change Management 74

Change Management Culture Change Management 74

Media Cause

AUGUST 19, 2023

By conducting a comprehensive review of the project closure and lessons learned, org anizations can uncover opportunities for improvement––such as enhancing internal collaboration and workflow, addressing vague direction and feedback, and establishing better-defined roles and responsibilities.

Project 52

Project Lesson Learning Roles 52

AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Close the Loop - $10,000 for feedback ideas'

Philanthropy 22

Philanthropy Ideas 22

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Bring these items to your advisory committee to give them time to look it over and provide tangible feedback, edits, and recommendations. Their feedback should be recursive and ongoing, helping you to constantly tweak your programs and policies to best serve your communities.

Voice 88

Voice Community Structure Nonprofit 88

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

When nonprofit leadership takes the time to build relationships, mentor staff, elicit insights and feedback and demonstrate the ability to act on that feedback, the staff will begin to trust that they have a place and a voice within the organization. This data is how we measure our impact.

Participatory 98

Participatory Culture Leadership Washington 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

In addition to building evidence continuously, and using that evidence to make programmatic decisions, including participant feedback is a critical component of impact management. Managers were making decisions without participant feedback. Participant-Centered Program Management.

Integration 69

Integration Impact Practice Management 69

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Keep volunteers in the loop Regular communication keeps volunteers in the loop and fosters a sense of belonging. Encourage feedback and suggestions; it not only empowers volunteers, but can also provide valuable insights for your organization. Start a conversation ; effective communications are interactive.

Arts 60

Arts Volunteer Retention Skills 60

Forum One

APRIL 25, 2023

The desire for convenience, personalization, transparency, incorporation of employee feedback, faster response times, and compassion can be translated into a better employee experience. Incorporate employee feedback Just as customers expect to see some results from their feedback, employees want to know their input matters at work.

Experiment 61

Experiment Culture Policy Collaboration 61

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Sense & Respond teaches you how to use a structured feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Enhance stories with simple visual elements. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture.

Leadership 52

Leadership Management Teach Storytelling 52

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2021

For nonprofits and government agencies, gathering insights and feedback from audiences is critical to effectively carry out their mission and achieve lasting impact. Depending on the answers to these questions, you may need to adapt your collection methods to expand your audience feedback loop. Audience research is here to stay.

Audience 66

Audience Research Change Sample 66

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

Sense & Respond teaches you how to use a structured feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Enhance stories with simple visual elements. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture.

Leadership 52

Leadership Management Teach Storytelling 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

Sense & Respond teaches you how to use that feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Enhance stories with simple visual elements. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture.

Teach 52

Teach Storytelling Picture Story 52

DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2021

Craft a volunteer communication strategy that distributes necessary information about your program while also allowing volunteers to send in feedback and questions. . Sending volunteer feedback surveys so supporters can voice opinions. This can help boost volunteer attendance at events and shifts. Volunteer Engagement.

Volunteer 98

Volunteer Program Management Retention 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It is also important to create feedback loops for staff to share their experience with others and provide professional development opportunities for those whose jobs tasks change and evolve. Give Staff Time for Hands-On Discovery Leaders should provide time for staff for hands-on exploration.

Adopt 79

Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. Faculty are engaging with students in real time using channels , which allows a continuous feedback loop to fine-tune courses throughout the semester.

Collaboration 120

Collaboration Communication Student Canada 120

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 7, 2018

Don't ask for feedback. Don't act on feedback (or at least close the loop as to why feedback wasn't incorporated into a decision) This is a great reminder for leaders of what not to do. Don't ask for or listen to concerns.

Management 40

Management Authoring Communication Business 40

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 11, 2012

And even without the same kind of evaluation and training resources at our disposal, we still have tools and capacity to carefully evaluate our performance and plug it in to fast-cycle feedback loops so we can continuously improve.

Game 132

Game Evaluation Broadcast Nonprofit 132

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Identify Your Priorities Define and Document Your Pro c edures Prepare Your Database Review Existing Portfolios or Assign New Portfolios Train Your Team Establish a Feedback Loop Track and Review Your Metrics. Step 6: Establish a Feedback Loop. Getting Started. Step 7: Track and Review Your Metrics.

Database 52

Database Track Donor Management 52

sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

Much of the feedback we received mentioned focusing on quality communication between organizers and volunteers as the best starting point. To conclude National Volunteer Month, we’ve gathered the best volunteer management tips and tricks from Blackbaud Champions. . Keep reading for ways to volunteer smarter, not harder! .

South Dakota 85

South Dakota Volunteer Tips Social 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

L4G invites nonprofits and funders to explore a simple but systematic and rigorous way of getting feedback from the people at the heart of our work. In 2016, 46 organizations across the 50 United States, from Hawaii to Massachusetts, received L4G grants to use that survey instrument to collect feedback from the people they serve.

National 51

National Survey Hawaii Tools 51

sgEngage

MAY 2, 2022

Incapacity to accept and implement volunteer feedback. . On the other hand, under-communication can leave your volunteers feeling confused or out of the loop, resulting in missed shifts. . Challenge #5: Incapacity to accept and implement volunteer feedback. . Lack of a thorough training process. . Volunteer burnout. .

Retention 71

Retention Volunteer Challenge Roles 71

NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

But not every new tactic works, and it's critical that nonprofits have short feedback loops to figure out what's working and where to allocate resources. A critical component in this is a kick-ass testing strategy–a simple, quick, and free mechanism of obtaining qualitative feedback on what's working.

Test 98

Test Web Audience Results 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

As important as we know beneficiary feedback and human-centered design and the related spheres of work are, they have not received the attention in the philanthropic press or on the conference circuit as many of the other topics listed. We’re thrilled, but it also gave us pause to ask ourselves, “Why are we surprised?”

Research 67

Research Foundation Austin Philanthropy 67

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 28, 2021

However, being adaptive to employee feedback and shifting programs as situations change is quite revolutionary, such as connecting employees to financial counseling or allowing modified schedules in order to accommodate caregiving tasks. Often, these are used as recruiting tools, promoting the organization as forward thinking and evolved.

Support 98

Support Time Arizona Conversation 98

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

This is the wrong approach for three reasons: 1) it doesn’t acknowledge the complete media consumption behavior of your target audiences; 2) it cuts off feedback loops that can be mined for insights that will improve engagement and returns and 3) it limits the reach and impact of your broader communications.

Metrics 227

Metrics Social Media Media Social 227

VisionLink

JANUARY 4, 2011

Community of Practice sessions focus on Design, Strategy, and Features providing important communication and feedback loops between us and the customers we serve. We have deployed the system to a few customers for real-world feedback and are incorporating their feedback now.

Resource 100

Resource Tools Data Management 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Don't ask for feedback. Don't act on feedback (or at least close the loop as to why feedback wasn't incorporated into a decision) This is a great reminder for leaders of what not to do. Don't ask for or listen to concerns.

Management 40

Management Authoring Business Communication 40

Candid

JULY 11, 2023

It is important to build in feedback loops with grantees, be transparent about what you are learning, and consider ways to continue to improve your relationships with grantee partners—especially when cultivating newer relationships. Embrace learning. Be prepared to learn and evolve in how you are using data to make decisions.

Demographics 75

Demographics Data Philanthropy Relationship 75

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 13, 2018

Sense & Respond teaches you how to use that feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Enhance stories with simple visual elements. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture.

Storytelling 45

Storytelling Teach Story Picture 45

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 20, 2016

Don't ask for feedback. Don't act on feedback (or at least close the loop as to why feedback wasn't incorporated into a decision) This is a great reminder for leaders of what not to do. Don't ask for or listen to concerns.

Management 40

Management Authoring Business Communication 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Don't ask for feedback. Don't act on feedback (or at least close the loop as to why feedback wasn't incorporated into a decision) This is a great reminder for leaders of what not to do. Don't ask for or listen to concerns.

Management 40

Management Authoring Business Communication 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2018

Sense And Respond teaches you how to use that feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Enhance stories with simple visual elements. Tell your personal story in a way that builds credibility and forges relationships. Focus on the outcomes. Embrace continuous processes. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture.

Leadership 40

Leadership Teach Storytelling Picture 40

NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

But not every new tactic works, and it''s critical that nonprofits have short feedback loops to figure out what''s working and where to allocate resources. A critical component in this is a kick-ass testing strategy–a simple, quick, and free mechanism of obtaining qualitative feedback on what''s working.

Test 63

Test NTEN Nptech Web 63

The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, the positive feedback loop from users interacting with Flippy has enabled us to continually refine our platform to better meet the evolving needs of nonprofits. The time saved on routine inquiries alone has allowed teams to redirect their focus to strategic planning and executing mission-driven initiatives.

Integration 64

Integration Tech Impact Nonprofit 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback.

Story 121

Story Data Analysis Measure 121